Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-03
EASTERN NEWS.
ESPECIAL TO THE sESrIsEL.I
Fatal Battle over . County Seat
Question.

DENVER, Col, March Z.-For some
months past a very hard feeling has
| existed between citizens of Leoti and
| Caronadd, two small tonws in Wallace
| county, Kansas, over the location OF
| the county seat. The county govern
| ment is now located at the latter place,
| and the citizens of the former are at
tempting to have it moved to their
| town. This hard feeling often leads
to rows and knock-downs when the
| citizens of one village would visit the
| other, but with no fatal results until
Yesterday afternoon. At 8 o'clock
Frank Jonness, A. N. Barry, George
Watkins, Emmitt Derming, Charles
Coulter, Bill Rains, and a man named
Johnson, left Leoti for Caronadd.
Upon entering that town in a wagon
they noticed suspicious movements
among some OF the citizens, who were
standing on the pavement in front of
one OF the stores. Coulter, Rains and
Johnson sprang from the wagon and
reached for their revolveis. No sooner
| had the men touched the ground than
the party in front OF the store poured a
| volley from six-shooters into them,
/ instantly killing Coulter, Rains and
| Johnson, and wounding Jonness,
| Barry and Watkins, SO that their re-
| covery is impossible. During the fight
Derming escaped from town, and has
| not vet been heard from. 1t is not
| known whether he was wounded or
not. After the killing the bodies of
| the dead men were left lying in the
street, no one being allowed to remove
| them until nearly midnight, when
| they were taken to the undertaker's.
| The wounded men were conveyed to a
| hotel, and are being cared for. None
OF the murderers have yet been ar
| rested, and it seems that no officer in
| the county has any desire to attempt
| the task, and further trouble is antici-
| pated between citizens. As they are
| located 20 miles from a railroad and
telegraph line, the latest news from
there has not been received.
Congressional Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-On motion
of Voorhees,, of Washington Territory,
the Senate amendments were con-
Cured in to the bill annexing a portion
of Idaho to Washington Territory.
Senate - Among the papers pre-
sented by the presiding officer, was a
communication from the Secretary OF
War, with copies of all the dispatches
from General Miles, referring to the
surrender of Geronimo, and of the in
structions and correspondence therein,
called for by a recent resolution, was
ordered printed.
The Senate Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia, at a special and
very short meeting this morning, voted
to report adversely upon the nomina-
ton of James M. Trotter. OF Boston,
| the colored man nominated to be Re-
| corder OF Deeds for the District Of
Columbia.
House-There was laid upon the
table a motion to reconsider the vote
by which the House receded from its
amendments to the Senate Retaliatory
| bill. This passes the bill in the shape
LII WllILll U PdoCC0 Vic CCndtCs
The House has agreed to the con
ference report on the joint resolution
(now a billy for the investigation o.
the accounts of the Pacific railroads.
Senator Hearst In Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 2.-United States
Senator elect, George Hearst of Cali
fornia, arrived here to-day, and left ir
the evening for Washington to bt
sworn in. He says that he will be il
the Senate to effect some changes in
currency denomination. He wants
gold coin to be issued in denomination
of not less than the $40 piece, so that
all great monied transactions can be
made with gold. He wants silver tt
be made to fill the medium of small
change. To do this, he desires silver
certificates to be issued in denomina.
tions of s. and $40, not lower, and have
silver hall. dollars take the place of
the silver dollars. The silver dollar and
the silver certificates, he says, are a
nuisance, whereas the silver half-dol.
lar meets the convenience OF all.
Cleveland, he claims, is to-day more
of a silver man than he was when he
first went to the Capitol.
Brakemen ON y strike.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., March 2.-All the
freight brakemen on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio railroads, Of
the yard and road crews, struck this
morning, and the freight traffic on the
line is entirely suspended. The EN-.
ployes had u meeting last evening, and
were informed that Superintendent
O'Brien had given instructions to en-
force the order taking a brakeman of
each crew, and acting upon this infor-
nation, it had been decided to quit
work. They asserted that when the
strike was settled last Fall it was
agreed that each crew should have
three brakemen.
The President Will Sign the Nor.
mon Bill.
New YORK, March PA Washing
ton special says: The Attorney Gen
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